Tuesday, Jan 30| 11:15 - 12:00 | CMAX Theater

In this session, we will not only discuss about the performance aspect of an AI/ML ready IT infrastructure but rather about the NetApp Data Fabric technology that encompass the entire data flow, from ingest to archive making sure you collect as much data as possible from as many sources as possible. Additionally, as cloud powered AI/ML has also become part of the whole ecosystem, we will also see how NetApp Data Fabric offers the necessary data management technologies to enable the entire deep learning pipeline extending the edge and core into the cloud.

Speakers:

• Hoseb Dermanilian - Business Development Manager EMEA
• Arnaud Bassaler - CSE Cisco Systems

Wednesday, Jan 31 | 11:15 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. | CMAX Theater

Global real time collaboration using 3D FlexPod with Nvidia Grid. As data is getting larger, moving files around costs time - and is a security risk. The virtual Workstation powered by 3D FlexPod is designed with the user at its center and offers any kind of computer resource on demand, no matter what the size and resolution of the data. A medical image, cad drawing or seismic data cube is available globally using the joint power of 3D FlexPod and Netapp Data Fabric.

Speakers:

• Kenneth Westerby - GPU Datacenter Solutions BDM, Netapp
• Chris O'Brien – Technical Marketing Director, Cisco Systems

Wednesday, Jan 31| 1:20 - 2:00 | Innovation Theater

As you accelerate your DevOps transformations, you need technology partners who understand the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies. NetApp and Cisco developed FlexPod over six years ago to address the need for agile infrastructure that can quickly adapt to emerging customer scenarios. Learn how FlexPod can help your developers leverage Cisco CloudCenter, OpenStack and containers to move data and environments between on premises and the cloud and back again, without losing a beat.

Speakers

• Lee Howard - CTO Cisco Alliance, NetApp
• Cisco Speaker

Thursday, Feb 1| 11:30 - 12:30 | Main Programme Session

The Converged Systems Advisor provides FlexPod customers with cloud-based management capabilities that reduce the time and expertise required to validate and manage FlexPod converged infrastructures. Converged Systems Advisor for FlexPod enables IT teams to consistently monitor, maintain compliance and report on the full-stack (hardware, firmware, hypervisor) converged infrastructure. In this session, we will showcase the SaaS portal dashboards and reporting capabilities, while also providing an overview of the NetApp Converged Systems Advisor.

Speaker:

• Keith Barto - Director Product Management, NetApp

Partnerecosystem (Netapp & Cisco)

How engagement with an extended Partnerecosystem (besides NetApp and Cisco) including validated designs and offerings is essential for a successful LOB and vertical value proposition.

Analytics/AI Case Study
As Data is the new gold and AI is the new electricity, Manfred shares the NetApp Case Study on how NetApp IQ (previously Autosupport) reduced the Hadoop license cost by over 60% as well as cut ten times the Storage footprint and leverage NVidia GPU's from AWS using the Datafabric.

NVME
NVME, the new Storage protocol, helps to process and analyze the petabytes of data. NVME over Fabrics extend this for external Storage Arrays. NetApp leads here with E-series or with our Plexistore Acquisition.